Venice is a dream, an unforgettable memory. As the Venetian composer Luigi Nono wrote, “in Venice you learn to see the invisible and hear the inaudible. Stones, bricks, darkness, water, light: things speak to us.” In “la Serenissima” (the Most Serene Republic), modernity is practically inexistent, and the past is the present. And in Venice’s past, vineyards and wine played an important role. According to an old Venetian saying, in the lagoon “no garden exists without Marzemina, Recaldina or Rabosa.” Grapevines were cultivated everywhere. This can still be proven today thanks to some toponyms painted on the walls to indicate the names of streets, squares and sotoportegos. One example is Malvasia, a toponym which baptizes the streets where the sweet wine was once successfully sold. 17
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